On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Chris <kc2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> System is Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit. >> Xastir is the 2.0.0 version that ships with Ubuntu from the repo >> Festival is installed. >> festival --server & is running and working, running as the same >> user as xastir is. >> telnet to the localhost festival port works and it speaks >> The configure -> speech dialog "Test" button works and speaks >> >> The issue is that all the option boxes are greyed out and nothing is >> sent to festival it seems. >> >> Is this a known issue? > > In Xastir, when you click "Help - About", is Festival listed as one of > the supported libraries? If not, it means that build of Xastir was > not compiled with Festival support.
It is not listed there, no. But how would the 'test' button be working? It plays "Greetings from Xastir" when I hit it...odd. > > The version of Xastir that is in the Ubuntu repository was built by an > Ubuntu package manager - not by an Xastir developer, so if the person > who built it decided not to compile in support for Festival, it won't > be there. Yeah...I guess I'll build my own. Heh, one of my pet peeves, if the distro has all core libs needed, the package *should* by common sense, be built with every available feature. For the most part most maintainers do this, but indeed many will skip things. Thanks for the replies. -- 73 de Chris -- KC2RGW KC2RGW@W2LI.#NNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM ------------------------------------------------------------ ˙dn ǝpıs ʇɥƃıɹ ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ uɹnʇ ǝsɐǝןd 'sıɥʇ ƃuıpɐǝɹ ǝɹɐ noʎ ɟı _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir